Justin Sirois's Blog, page 44
July 13, 2012
between Fallujah and Ramadi, Iraqis escape country's woes at lake resort
"I come here every week with my family and friends to escape from the daily problems like unemployment... politics and sectarianism," said Abdul Rahman Mohammed, 25, an unemployed university graduate.
"When we see the Iraqis here, they are not Sunni, or Shia, Kurd or Christian, and they have smiles on their faces, we forget everything else," said Mohammed, who holds a bachelor's degree in administration and economics.
His brother, 29-year-old Abdul Qader, who has a degree in history and is also...
July 12, 2012
July 11, 2012
Eileen Myles, Now in Totebag Form
Eileen Myles stayed at my house once. Now she has an Understanding Campaign sticker on her truck.
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Falcons summer
Look for five new reviews of Falcons on the Floor in pretty amazing places in the next few weeks. I'll post them, of course. Hints: RMPS, ABR, TNB, and LARoB). And an essay in the August issue of The Urbanite (Baltimore). 
July 10, 2012
on the new novel
Once I realized that the most common post-modern villain is the economy – that we all share this common enemy – the story's tension was easy to build. There was no need for a "bad guy". The evil was all around us, every-present and inescapable. All I needed to do was create characters who somehow controlled their own economies and find how those individual economies clashed.
Baltimore was the perfect environment for fostering these personal economies. Once the social network (the s...
